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NGC6197
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:37:59.8
Declination: +35:59:45
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 14.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, E, stellar
Sub-type: SB0-a
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6197 = IC 4616. See NGC 6196.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6197
18" (6/7/08): faint, small, elongated 3:2 SW-NE, 20"x14". Located 5' SSE of NGC 6196 and second brightest in chain of three galaxies.
17.5" (6/6/86): faint, very small, almost round. A mag 12.5 star lies 1.5' SE. This is the second brightest and furthest south in a trio with NGC 6196 4.8' NNW and IC 4614 7.6' NNW. This galaxy is identified as IC 4616 in the CGCG and MCG and RNGC misidentifies NGC 6197 with an extremely faint companion a 1.3' SW of NGC 6196.
13.1" (8/5/83): very faint, very small, near visual threshold.